NEOSHO, Mo. (joplinglobe.com) â€” Bryant L. Sykes Jr. showed remorse again Friday when a judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison for causing the death of his girlfriendâ€™s 18-month-old daughter, Ada Bowman.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Authorities are trying to determine what caused a support frame to collapse during an aerial hair-hanging stunt during a circus performance, sending eight acrobats crashing to the ground.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Microsoft is releasing a security update for Internet Explorer that closes a gap that allowed attackers to take complete control of a computer. It also issued the update to Windows XP users, despite dropping support for the older operating system last month.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Two Alaska State Troopers have been shot and killed during an investigation in a remote village, including at least one who had appeared in a television show about Alaska officers on the job.

Grundy County Presiding Commissioner, Rick Hull, says he's meeting this morning with Trenton City Administrator, Kerry Sampson, regarding the lease to house the county ambulance service at the City fire station at 17th and Harris.

(newstribune.com) - Nearly 44 years after 1st Lt. Bernard Plassmeyerâ€™s plane went down in South Vietnam, the Westphalia native was among those honored April 25 at Marine Corps Base Quantico near Triangle, Va.

GENEVA (AP) -- In its second grilling at the United Nations this year, the Vatican sought to limit its responsibility for the global priest sex abuse scandal by undercutting arguments it has violated an international treaty against torture and inhuman treatment.

Purchase of land is nearly 80 percent complete for the proposed development of a large lake in Sullivan County that eventually becomes a water source for ten counties and an estimated 54 thousand customers.

WASHINGTON (AP) â€” From huge state universities to small colleges and the Ivy League, 55 schools across America are facing federal investigation for the way they handle sexual abuse allegations by their students.

Columbia, Mo. (KOMU) - 12 University of Missouri athletes have been involved in a total of 16 arrests since the school joined the SEC. That puts Mizzou in a tie with the University of Georgia within the conference for the most athlete arrests.